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Another Way to Make Almond Pudding

A baked almond pudding made with blanched almonds, orange flower or rose water, wine, butter, sugar, eggs, cream, lemon peel, nutmeg, and bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Almond Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Pound the almonds with the orange flower or rose water.

  2. Add the white wine, melted butter, powdered sugar, beaten eggs, cream, lemon peel, nutmeg, and grated bread. Mix all ingredients well.

Bake

  1. Bake in a dish lined with puff pastry.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set into a custard-like texture when baked.
Blanched sweet almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the pudding.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the pudding a softer texture.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender crumb.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and dissolves smoothly into the wet ingredients.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, white wine, butter, sugar, egg, cream, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, white wine, butter, sugar, egg, cream, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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